Bedstead and trunk combined



F. BOISSARD AND S. CONRATH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BEDSTEAD AND TRNK COMBINED'.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 33,128, dated August 27, 1861.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Figure l, is a transverse vertical section.`

of our invention in a closed state; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section of the saine in an open state and arranged as a` bedsteadm m, Fig. 3, indicating the plane of section; and Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section of Fig. 2, taken in the line g/ y of said figure.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention consists in constructing a trunk of three principal parts and a flap connected by joints and arranged with lids and drawer substantially as hereinafter shown and described, whereby7 the trunk when open or distended, will be sufficiently long to serve as a bedstead and still be capable of being folded or shut up in compact form and of sufficient dimensions to contain a requisite amount of clothing', together with supports and a covering for the bedstead.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct our invention, we will proceed to describe it.

r-i represents a trunk which is composed of three parts, o, Z), c. These parts may be constructed of wood covered with leather. The parts a. o are not connected directly together, but are connected through the medium of a flap, d, the parts a Z) being attached by joints, as?, to opposite ends of the flap, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. The flap (Z is equal in thickness or depth to the part c of the trunk and the parts I) c are connected together directly by a joint, e. The part c contains a drawer, f, but the parts a o are each provided with a lid, designated by g 7L. The lid g of the part o is provided with a support, i, which when the device is used as a bedstead props up the outer part of the lid, as shown in Fig. 2. The drawer f when drawn out from the part c serves to lengt-hen the bedstead, and the flap Z effects two important results, to wit: the lengthening or extending of thebedstead, when the device is used as such, and the admitting of the part-s a ZJ c being folded one over the other, as shown in Fig. 1, the part o being folded over on the part Z9, and the part a folded over on the part c.

ll/vhen the 'parts are folded together in trunk form, the drawer f is shoved within the part c and the lid g adjusted snugly down on the part a, the support z' being folded underneath said lid g is shown in Fig. l. lThe drawer f, as well as the parts o o of the trunk, may be used as depositories for clothing, and one of said parts may contain two or more forked rods or bars, B, which are simply rods bent in V-form, with an eye, y', at theangle, as shown clearly in FiO. 3.

lVhenthe device is used as a bedstead, the ends of the rods or bars B are fitted in the sides of the parts o o, and a rope, fr, is attached to the eyes j'of said rods or bars to form a ridge-pole or bearing for a covering or curtain, C, shown in red outline in Fig. 3. A, mattress, D, which is placed on the bedstead, as shown in Fig. 2, is folded and strapped on the top of the part a when the device is folded up; see Fig. 1.

By having the trunk formed of three arts and a flap, connected together as iown, and having the part o provided with a drawer, f, a very compact trunk is obtained and still one sufficiently capacious for ordinary purposes; while a bedstead of requisite length is obtained when the parts of the trunk are unfolded and the drawer of part o drawn out.

lille do not claim broadly and irrespective of the construction and arrangement herein shown and described, a combined trunk and bedstead' for such devices have been rel viously made, although very differently arranged from the plan herein described.

File claim, therefore, as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

The trunk, A, formed of three parts, a o o, and the flap, (l, connected together by joints, the parts e A) being provided with lids, g 71., and the part fr provided with a drawer, f,- all arranged as shown and used in connection with a mattress, D, and with or without cover or curtain supports, B, to form a new and improved combination of a trunk and bedstead as set forth.

FREDERCK BOISSARD. SEBASTIAN CONRATH. llitnesses' M. M. LIVINGSTON, G. W. REED. 

